The edge is set to become the âcentre of everythingâ New research suggests that up to $800 billion could be spent on new and replacement server equipment and edge computing facilities in the years running up to 2028.
The research, from the Linux Foundation, says that growth is going to be driven by the deployment of 5G in industry, alongside the commoditisation of edge hardware and the rise of open source networking software. It expects investment to be equally split between equipment for the device edge and infrastructure edge.
Legacy data centres are set to become obsolete in the next few years. That s a trend that has been accelerated by the pandemic which has driven the development of tools for remote monitoring, provisioning, repair and management and reduced the cost of edge computing while driving up its use by automation technologies and autonomous systems across sectors from manufacturing to remote healthcare, data management, surveillan
Addressing the e-waste mountain With 6 million people saying the majority of their home appliances break within just two years, the âRight to Repairâ law thatâs due to come into effect in the summer will have a significant impact on consumers and their bank balances.
From this summer, consumers will have a Right to Repair their household appliances as the government looks to cut down on the estimated 1.5 million tonnes of electronic waste generated by the UK each year.
The sale of white goods and domestic appliances has skyrocketed over the past year due in no small part to the on-going pandemic and the fact that people have been spending more on improving their homes.
Countdown to BEEAs week âThere are just two more weeks until the winners of this year s British Engineering Excellence Awards are announced. The week of March 22-26 will see the winners announced in full.
The British Engineering Excellence Awards celebrate the best of design engineering in the UK from 2019-2020 and while this has been an unusual time, and this ceremony reflects that, the organisers have been determined to ensure that excellence was recognised regardless.
Rather than the much-missed physical ceremony, the Awards this year will be hosted live on the BEEAs website and later on the websites of Eureka! and New Electronics.
Boost for quantum computing In what could be a boost for quantum computing and communication, a team of European scientists have reported a new method of controlling and manipulating single photons without generating heat.
The solution makes it possible to integrate optical switches and single-photon detectors in a single chip.
The European Quantum Flagship project, S2QUIP, is reported to have developed an optical switch that is reconfigured with microscopic mechanical movement rather than heat, making the switch compatible with heat-sensitive single-photon detectors.
Currently, optical switches work by locally heating light guides inside a semiconductor chip. This approach does not work for quantum optics, said Samuel Gyger, a researcher from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.